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  • Seeking a Real Families First Agenda this First BC Family Day

    By Seth Klein and Adrienne Montani On February 11, British Columbians will enjoy a well-deserved new stat holiday. With the inaugural Family Day, Premier Christy Clark has made good on a promise made during her bid for the BC Liberal leadership. The winter stretch needed a new long weekend, and…

  • Growing Gap

    Hennessy’s Index: February 2013

    The Dominance of Canada’s 1% Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index $201,400 The entry point to become one of Canada’s richest 1% of income earners. In other words, if you make…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Remarks to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia’s Special Committee on Timber Supply

    Attachments Remarks to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia’s Special Committee on Timber Supply

  • Response to the Nova Scotia Minimum Wage Review Committee Report

    Download 188.14 KB3 pages The Nova Scotia Minimum Wage Review Committee’s report is a very valuable resource document for understanding the situation of the most vulnerable workers in this province. In this submission, CCPA’s Nova Scotia Office responds to the key recommendations of the committee’s report. 

  • Enbridge testimony from Josh Paterson

    A guest post follows from Josh Paterson, who is formerly a lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, and recently appointed Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. Josh’s remarks are his own personal opinions. ********** Good evening. I’m happy to be here in unceded Coast Salish territories to address you…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    New trade treaties jeopardize fisheries regulation

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Ottawa – The proposed Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and other trade and investment treaties threaten the sustainability of fisheries and fishing communities, says a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Globalization, Trade Treaties and the Future of the…

  • Hennessy’s Index: January 2013

    First Nations: The Long Shadow of Assimilation Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 150,000 Number of Aboriginal children who were taken from their families and forced into residential schools as part…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Cheap electricity for mining, oil and gas companies means higher bills for BC’s residential customers, more greenhouse gas emissions

    (Vancouver) A new study warns that mining, oil and gas corporations are putting increasingly large demands on BC’s hydroelectricity system – essentially using clean energy to power industries that pollute the environment and release large amounts of greenhouse gases. While the study sounds an alarm, it also presents a positive…

  • Education Project

    E-Commerce vs. E-Commons

    Communications in the Public Interest Download 1.65 MB228 pages From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, the essays contained in this book challenge the rush to deregulate and disconnect communications from the public interest. This collection offers a reality check on the state of communications…

  • The Big Chill

    Basic freedoms of speech and advocacy are now under siege There are few values at the heart of any vibrant democratic society more important than the right and the ability to speak out freely, to disagree, and to advocate for differing points of view. These rights lie at the heart…

  • In Search of Child Care

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 3 million Number of Canadian moms of children aged 12 or younger who work in…

  • New report shows NAFTA has harmed workers in all three countries

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Washington, D.C. – An evaluation of the North American Free Trade Agreement on its seventh anniversary finds a continent-wide pattern of stagnant worker incomes, lost job opportunities, increased insecurity, and rising inequality, according to NAFTA at Seven, a new report from the Economic…